- Author: Brenda Dawson
Reporter Amina Khan with the LA Times profiled husband-and-wife entomologist team Christina and Mark Hoddle of UC Riverside (Mark is also a UC Cooperative Extension entomology specialist). The pair travel the world seeking parasitoids that can serve as biological control to invasive California pests and then test the results at the Center for Invasive Species Research at UC Riverside. "Bugs don't take weekends," Christina Hoddle told the reporter, "so neither do we."
- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
Welcome to Cyber Monday, the Monday after Thanksgiving, which got its name from the popularity of online purchasing the first work day since the busy Christmas season began. According to Wikipedia, the prevalence of high-speed Internet in homes is diluting the shopping strength of Cyber Monday, so it may just become a day to honor the contributions of the Internet to American life.
Along those lines, I'll use Cyber Monday to bring you the latest cyber news coverage of UC ANR.
The Marin Independent Journal, reporting on the local olive harvest, quoted UCCE farm advisor Paul...
- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences will publish a research report next week with "groundbreaking" news, according to Kathy Keatley Garvey, communications specialist in the UC Davis Department of Entomology.
Garvey has a news release about the research ready, but it is embargoed until 2 p.m. Monday, Aug. 18. "Embargoed" is media-lingo for "top secret."
According to Garvey, the research report, written by entomologist Walter Leal, will, "without a doubt," receive international coverage. It affects some 200 million people, and, in the words of a